In Naples, he stayed with his cheap grandfather for more than a month, during which he paid for the old man's drinks more than 20 times, and after being pampered by the old man to fight with the sailors more than ten times in the naval club, Shepard always got a list of several old friends of the old man in the Admiralty, Shepard only needed to visit one by one according to the list, and the approval of the new tank was almost passed.

Of course, a visit is definitely not just a door-to-door tea chat and a few words, the gifts that should be given must be indispensable, but there is no need to worry about this, there is a professional team that will do what these military bigwigs like.

After returning to the United States, Shepard went to AAI's workshop again, and Eugene Stoner was worthy of being a master of firearms, and he had already completed the prototype design of the tank gun in a month of work in Italy.

It was a strange thing that could shoot a 75mm tail stabilized deshelling armor-piercing projectile at a rate of fire of 0.85 seconds, using countersunk shells and exposed bolts, so to speak, from the beginning, this thing was mainly a science fiction.

As for the power of the artillery, it is also not bad, it is obviously a 75 mm gun, but it can have the power to penetrate 300 mm thick vertical armor steel within 500 meters, in addition, this gun can also fire anti-aircraft ammunition, after all, such a high rate of fire is really a waste of ground.

When Shepard returned, it was just in time for the gun and chassis tests, and then a group of designers found that Stoner seemed to be a little too strong, and as a last resort, Stoner could only reduce the rate of fire of the gun, becoming one hundred and fifty rounds a second, but the automatic loader designed like a revolver nest can still bring strong burst fire to the tank.

Seeing that the progress is so smooth, Shepard should also be relieved, after all, tank testing is an extremely time-consuming process, and the testing time of many tanks in the development process often takes several years, or even more than ten years.

Therefore, there is no need for him to continue to pay attention in the factory, it is the job of the designer, he just needs to continue to pay attention to it in the future.

In fact, he doesn't have much energy to pay attention to the testing of new tanks now, because there is new business to be done!

And this business, naturally, has to start with a war!

That's the Ogaden War!

As we all know, the reason why the territory of African countries is strange is because the white colonizers who divided the land are not the result of people, and the straight lines on the map do not mean that the terrain in reality is also like that, the mountains and rivers have their own directions, and the animals know how to divide the territory, let alone the people who live in such places.

Therefore, such a rude demarcation of national borders has caused a more serious problem, that is, the black uncle of the same species and the same origin may be separated by a mountain, but he is a person from two countries.

This is the case in Somalia and Ethiopia, where the Ogaden region is home to a large number of Somalis who are Ethiopian nationals.

This led to a basis for the conflict between the two countries, and then the provocation from the Western oil companies intensified the conflict, because Ethiopia and Somalia are both poor and unscrupulous countries, so when the Western oil companies released the rhetoric that the Ogaden has a large amount of untapped oil, the contradiction between the two countries was directly made public.

At this moment, it is just in time for the time when the national strength of the two sides is turned upside down, Ethiopia has continued civil strife, and the national strength has been greatly depleted, and Somalia is thriving with the support of the Soviet Union, so Siad Barre, who was the head of state of Somalia at that time, believes that this is a good opportunity for Somalia to take back the Ogaden.

The Somalis living there gave Somalia a strong claim to Ogaden, and Ethiopia had no troops to fight at the moment because of the Great Purge, so in 1977, when Shepard was playing the game of Monopoly in Comoros, a full-scale war broke out between the two sides.

At this time, it should be emphasized that although it is Ethiopia and Somalia that are fighting, there are two big brothers standing behind them, of which the United States stands behind Ethiopia and the Soviet Union stands behind Somalia.

After the outbreak of the war, the Ethiopian military junta was unable to rely on the United States, so it decisively threw itself into the arms of the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union also kicked Somalia away and began to help Ethiopia, but even so, Ethiopia was still defeated at the beginning of the war

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Ethiopia, which has lost its land one after another, is very disappointed in Big Brother, when I was in danger, the first thing I thought about was you, why did you come here and watch the drama there?

In a short period of time, the Soviet Union sent 600 tanks, 400 rocket artillery, 300 infantry fighting vehicles, 40 MiG fighters, 150 military helicopters and 17,000 Cuban volunteers.

This kind of extravagant airlift really scared the Western friends stupid, because the transportation of this scale was only 12 percent of the Soviet Union's strategic projection power, which meant that the Soviet Union could transport many times more troops to another part of the world at any time if it wanted to.

With such a large investment, Somalia's defeat was only a matter of time, and Somalia, after losing the help of the Soviet Union, wanted the United States to pull itself along, but the CIA provided Somalia with more than 10,000 helmets for everyone's sake of adding to the Soviet Union's blockage.

Somalia, which had been completely defeated in the war, was devastated by the complete interruption of the secularization that had begun in its infancy, and the entire country was once again divided into numerous factions from the top down, and then began to passionately eliminate itself.

Somalia is rich in fishery resources, so the people can barely make a living by fishing, but there are more and more foreign fishing boats, and the Somali government is just a decoration, and there is no way to protect the interests of fishermen.

As a result, Somali fishermen have no choice but to organize themselves to defend the fry in their ponds and fight against foreign fishing boats.

In the process of protecting fishing, Somali fishermen found that it seemed that the benefits of fishing protection were just like that, but robbing foreign fishing boats seemed to make much more money than protecting fishery.

Then, when it comes to industrial upgrading, Somali fishermen have found that the profits brought by fishing boats are still the same, and the countless cargo ships that pass through the Gulf of Aden every day are not even more valuable?

Of course, Shepard didn't want to be a pirate in Somalia, but he did want Somalis to be pirates, otherwise he would be embarrassed to sell his own security services.